Effectiveness Of Highly Sequenced Cognitive Behavioral...

In 2005, Swedish researchers, Nevonen and Broberg, investigated the effectiveness of highly sequenced cognitive-behavioral therapy for Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders and anxiety. They released a study examining thirty five EDNOS participants with a mean age of 20.5, matched and randomized to twenty three sessions of sequenced CBT, followed by either individual or group therapy. Intention-to-treat analysis was used and participants were measured pre, post-treatment, and at one and 2.5 years follow up. Their findings showed that both sequenced based groups yielded a recovery of only about 10% at post-treatment; about 60%had not changed their binge-eating, purging, or restricting during or in conjunction with completing the†¦show more content†¦Researchers cite potential hypotheses for the decline such as 1) poorly trained therapists; 2) inexperienced psychotherapists; and 3) the placebo effect, meaning that the ‘newness’ of the technique has worn o ff (Pretzer, 2015), but suggest that more research is needed to confirm the substantial decline in clinical outcome measures. Areas of Disagreement in the Research Holistic Treatments: The Causal Model Emotional Etiology Integrative medicine and holistic therapy for obesity and comorbid anxiety are partners in treating the whole person, knowing that one part of a person cannot become ill, or well, without all of the other parts being affected (Clinton, 2010). Therapists Emmett and Rabinor (2007) of Rhode Island are advocates of the holistic treatment of eating pathology. They cite that holistically healed individuals possess a relatively stable sense of inner well-being, contentment, and the feeling that they fit and belong to their surrounding community – ‘a robust reclamation of the complete self, physically, emotionally, and spiritually’ (Emmett et al., 2007, p. 82). Thomas (2009) supports this presupposition adding that recovery must encompass this profound personal transformation not merely changes in behaviorally verifiable criteria such as weight gain, caloric intake, and binge cycle frequency (From the Editor section, para.3).